Category: Music Theory

Guitar theory is nothing more than the study of music theory as it applies to the guitar. The same principles of music theory that apply to any other instrumentalist apply to guitar players as well. Melodic and harmonic progression,...

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. Here we’re looking at a little riff between an A minor 7 and a D9 or D7, which is one of...

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here again with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this lesson. This is a lick that utilizes 4ths. A 4th is when I go up — basically an easy way...

Hi. This is John McClennan and here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. As a second part to our previous lesson we discussed harmonizing a major scale in 6ths. So we have this, which is a great sound...

Hi. This is John McClennan and with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this lesson. Again, we’re expanding on our triad voicings and we’re going to take the same fingerings that we did in the previous lesson, but we’re going to transfer...

How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this video lesson. I’m going to show you some 7th chords on the lower strings today. What I love about these...

I sat down with Jon and asked him some critical questions about creativity, chops, improvising, having fun when you’re practicing, the blues, and more… Enjoy [audio:https://www.guitarcontrol.com/blog/audio/maclennan-play-from-heart-interview.mp3] You’ll definitely want to check out his latest guitar course called “Play from...